Emmanuel Niyonkuru

Emmanuel Niyonkuru (20 July 1962-1 January 2017) was the Minister of Water and the Environment of Burundi from April 2015 to January 2017.

Biography
Emmanuel Niyonkuru was born in Rutegama, Burundi on 20 July 1962, and he worked as a banker before being elected as a senator from Muramvya. In April 2015, he was appointed Minister of Water and the Environment under President Pierre Nkurunziza, and he was murdered in Bujumbura by a female assassin on 1 January 2017.